Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Dark Angel characters or plot. All the
new characters are mine though!
Pairing: MA eventually, CA friendship
"I heard the heist team's back." Said Logan as Max walked into their apartment.
"Yeah." Said Max stoically.
"So what happened? Did it all go well? Its just you've been gone so long." Said Logan gesturing for her to sit down.
"Oh yeah I went to see you in the infirmary but you'd already gone. It was then they came in. We had a few casualties." Replied Max sitting down at the furthest point away from him on the couch.
"Oh did Alec screw up the mission again." Said Logan waiting for her reply.
"Yeah, probably." She replied absentmindedly but that was enough for Logan who suddenly broke into a big grin.
"Logan, I gotta go." She said standing up without looking at Logan and walking towards the door.
"But you just got back." Whined Logan.
She spun round quickly, "Logan, I am glad you're okay but I am the leader of this nation and I have a lot of work to do." And she walked off.
"Chloe, it's been five hours now. Get some rest or some food or something." Said Hazel to the anomaly.
"I'm fine." Replied Chloe as Hazel walked into the next room but quickly halted her, "I'd like some water though."
"Sure thing." Said Hazel from the other room and then brought her transhuman friend her drink, "I'm off now. Need a few zzzs before today's class. Send someone up if you need me."
"'k babes. Laterz."
Max walked into the courtyard and stood there for a couple of minutes looking around. The night was cool and crisp and the only light shed was from random fires lit. She had told Logan that she was going to her office a HQ but she was thinking about taking a detour to the infirmary when she heard someone coming.
"Oh, it's you." Said Max coldly.
"Lovely to see you as always 452." Replied Hazel.
"For the last time. It's Max." said the other transgenic through gritted teeth.
"Yeah, whatever." Replied Hazel changing the subject quickly, "So you heading to the infirmary?"
"No. Why would I?" said Max quickly.
"Oh. I don't know." Said Hazel sarcastically, "Maybe to see our friend Alec. To see whether the rest of the heist team are fairing well. To offer encouragement and praise for risking their lives to give this grand freak nation food, weapon and medical supplies. Isn't that what a good CO should do?"
Max looked a bit dumbstruck, "Err, well yes I might do that soon."
"Good. I'm sure they'll be pleased to see you." Hazel said slowly turning around to carry on walking but added, "Especially if you stay civil to all parties."
Max couldn't think of anything to do but stick her tongue out to the back of a walking Hazel.
Max walked into a quiet infirmary. Most of the transgenics were sleeping but a couple of transhumans were playing cards in the corner and she saw two X8s talking to each other animatedly but quietly. Looking at them so carefree, she had to smile.
"What's put you in such a good mood?" she heard a croaky, deep voice say. She turned in the direction of the voice and saw Alec sitting up slightly on his bed with Chloe asleep in the chair next to him.
"How are you?" Max asked quietly as not to wake Chloe up.
"I'm perfectly fine. Only a bit sore." Replied Alec looking at her strangely, "What are you doing here?"
"I just came to check up on everyone. See how everyone faired." She replied nonchalantly.
"Well, everyone's fine. Although I think Chloe and Gem need a good nights sleep." Said Alec nodding to the chair next to him and towards the office where a sleeping Gem could be seen still holding her baby.
Max sat herself down on a nearby chair and studied Alec. In the moonlight that strayed through the window, part of his face was hidden in darkness. But she could see how his face was held lower than usual with his ever present smirk erased from his chiselled face. His eyes looked tired and despondent but she knew that they still held strength.
"Are we gonna chat or are you just gonna stare at me all day?" said Alec quietly bringing her out of her reverie.
"Sorry." She said quietly, blushing slightly but soon looked at him again, "Alec, can I ask you something?"
"Go ahead." Was the reply she received.
"Well, it's just that earlier on Chloe said that you've been through enough of this to know the routine. What did she mean by that?"
Alec didn't reply but watched her through his peripheral vision. She looked bare as if she was trying to let go of what her brain constantly told what was right to do or wrong to do and she was just trying to listen to what her instincts told her. For once she looked vulnerable. Enraptured by this he said, "Back at manticore I used to get into a lot of trouble especially after the Berrisford mission. I was always kept on a tight leash and was regularly put into Psy-ops, solitary, and reindoctrination. After each one of these sessions, I would need to be taken care of and it was Chloe who was assigned to me. So she's seen me at my worst and weakest."
Max looked at him when he finished and for the first time really saw him. When she first met him back at manticore Alec was a true manticorian or so she thought. He was someone she despised because he was everything she hated. He never tried to be a normal guy but was proud of his abilities. He never needed the feeling of fitting in with the normal people and leading a normal life because he knew he never could and was comfortable with that. Ever since she had escaped she had always wanted to be accepted and forget her past. And it had taken her nearly ten years to settle down and make friends but Alec, after being out for only a year, has already settled down into life by finding a calling in life at TC and finding friends. He even wormed his way into her heart and now she could see why. He was a constant presence of strength, vitality, warmth, and annoyingness, that even though not always wanted, was needed to keep her life up straight.
"Your in an open mood today." She said.
That made him chuckle. His laugh was deep and sincere which put a smile on Max's face. He soon said, "Aren't you the lucky one then."
"You know, it seems everyone here knows you more than me." She replied.
"Your probably right. Not like you ever really wanted to know." He said with a dry laugh.
"You could tell me now." She replied carefully.
He turned to look at her to see if she was serious. To her credit she looked him straight in the eye.
"What do you want to know?" he asked turning to her.
"About the Berrisford mission, about you being a CO which I can't believe by the way, about your apparent brilliant fighting abilities which I won't believe." She replied shrugging her shoulders. His face was stone serious until the last bit when he chuckled slightly. She carried on, "Wherever you want to start."
"Well, I've been CO of my unit since I was five years old. Biggs and Hazel were both in my unit and I had four other people as well. We were all pretty close. I guess I ended up with the weirdest lot 'cos one us didn't like to kill, which was a bit of a problem, one of us was far too humanitarian for manticore's liking, one of us loved guns, one of us never stopped chattin', one of us fought like a mother bear protecting her brood, one of us was a rebel and their was only one sane one. You know, it was a group waitin' for trouble. But we were a team. Manticore told us to leave behind the weak, but that would never happen with us. I was not gonna let one of mine die. We helped each other, had each other's back. We even had ourselves a little underground business venture with the guards." At this Max smiled and rolled her eyes. Alec in turn smiled but soon turned serious, "We weren't a family though. There wasn't room in our routine to become a family." He got quieter, "They made us do things. Things that wouldn't happen in a family." He shook his head and coughed slightly, "Anywayz, after my first session of Psy-ops and reindoctrination in '09, I learned what manticore could and most probably would do too us if we stepped outta line so I made sure none of my unit felt that pain. I vowed from then on whenever it was in my power I would prevent that from happening." Max opened her mouth to say something but Alec carried on, "If they did anything wrong, outta line, I was the one who was asked to report it but I never gave them away."
"You can't do that though. What about the guards and stuff?" said Max quietly.
"I know I couldn't out right lie and say nothing happened so I told them that I did it, so that I would face their punishment. Max, you've felt the pain, you know that no one should ever be violated like that." He said suddenly turning to her and looked at her with desperate eyes. She felt an obligation to nod back and ease his pain.
"The Berrisford Assignment. I was prepped for a year before I went on that mission. They were all very pleased 'cos I learned pro level in just a day. I killed the real Simon Lehane, stole his identity. I went to their home as Robert Berrisford's daughter's piano teacher. She was so beautiful. I mean I know that's nothing really because we were all made pretty but she was so radiant with life and innocence something that was taken away from us at birth I suppose..She took me in straight away...She smiled and laughed and showed love to everyone. She was the first person to introduce me to love. I remember when she told me that she loved me. I didn't know what to do, I didn't know what to feel, I just knew that what I did feel was good, really good. When I had to kill her, I dunno what I felt. I just.I was going to go along with manticore and kill both of them but I couldn't do it. I couldn't let her die so I ran to stop her and told her everything. Do you know what the last thing she said to me was?" Max shook her head no. "She told me she hated me." He said this with silent tears running down his face. He wiped them quickly.
"I couldn't save the whole unit from the rape of Psy-ops though." Alec said changing the topic, "I was on one of my stays in solitary. Biggs was left in charge of the unit 'cos he was my SIC." Max nodded in understanding of the information whilst Alec swallowed, "For a six months or so, Hazel had been on a solo mission. I remember she had been really excited because it was her first one and she had heard about the outside from me, Biggs and others in the unit who had already been out. Anywayz, I was stuck staring at the ceiling in solitary with only the howls of the anomalies to keep me company when I heard a guard saying sorry to someone and then hearing sobs of pain and then Hazel was chucked into my cell. She was beaten really bad. One of her eyes was popping out and her lip swollen. She had been whipped until parts of her T shirt was ripped and the skin was punctured. Have you ever been down in solitary?" He asked so suddenly it took Max a while to answer. She shook her head no. "They drug you before taking you down so that when they beat you up you can't fight back. So I'm lying their on the stone floor 'cos I've been beaten so bad I can't even sit up and I see Hazel across the other side of the cell barely conscious. I crawled over to her and tried to move her so that she was lying not on the stone but on me, and that's how Renfro found us. It's usually a guard that takes us out but she decided to grace us with her presence and she found me with Hazel on my lap clutching my shirt and took it totally the wrong way. She said to me, 'if you like each other so much I can sort it out you know'." He said this in a mocking voice and then carried on with his story, "Two weeks later, I was ordered to go to Hazel's cell and copulate with her."
Max's eyes widened. "You were what?" she asked slowly.
"You had blown up the DNA labs so the breeding program started. I was assigned to Hazel." Said Alec casually.
"But I thought we were most compatible." Said Max indignantly.
Alec fought a smirk. "We are, Maxie. No need to worry about that." He said grinning and touching her face slightly but quickly brought it back. "But you had just had a heart transplant. And I guess they needed to do tests on you. While that was happening I was supposed to have sex with Hazel." Max was going to say something but Alec decided to carry on, "That first time we were supposed to do it, we didn't. Instead we talked about stuff and I finally found out about why she was thrown into solitary. Do you know the funny thing?" Max shook her head no. "It was because she had fallen in love with her job. She had fallen in love with the man she was supposed to kill and in the end she didn't. She gave him a tip off and he fled, whilst Hazel was banished to never leave the manticore site ever again. She saved him. More than what I did." They were both quiet. Now the only sound in the room was deep breathing when Alec started up again, "We talked about Rachel. And I suppose we sorta bonded. The next time I came was a bit different though." He suddenly stopped and didn't speak for a long time.
"You can't end the story there." Stated Max impatiently.
"You won't want to hear the next part, Max." He replied after a long time.
"Why not? What happened?" asked Max intrigued by his enigma.
He sighed, "At manticore, during certain parts of the year females would be kept in isolation away from males."
"Why?" asked Max stupidly.
"'Cos of heat. Male X5s will fight to the death to mate with a female in heat and X5 females will just let them. So to stop the bloodshed, females were put into lockdown." He carried on.
"Why is this important?" she asked.
"Because when I went to Hazel's cell, she was acting weird. All my senses went berserk. I mean I could smell her from outside her cell. She smelled so good. She moved as far away from me as possible. From across the room I could hear her breath quicken and her skin was glistening. Are you sure you want to hear this?" He stopped and looked at her. He was speaking so softly and with such a care she had to gulp and then nodded. "All I wanted to do was kiss her but I knew it was wrong, you know? She was part of my unit, we weren't supposed to be like that. But she backed up so far that she fell on to the bed and she gasped and I don't know, I just couldn't control myself and we....and then you came along."
"What?" she said quickly, "What have I got to do with it?"
"Well, after that day I didn't see Hazel again for a while 'cos I was assigned to you." Said Alec.
"What happened to Hazel?" said Max quietly.
"I guess she was assigned a breeding partner. I didn't see her again until she had the baby." Said Alec shrugging his shoulders.
They both stayed in silence for a while when Max said, "Who's the baby's father?"
"Dunno. Probably her other breeding partner. She never really wanted to talk about it." Said Alec.
"Did you ever see the child?" asked Max.
"Yeah, loads. I was the one who helped her sneak into the baby unit at night to see him. He was gorgeous. He had Hazel's dark hair and eyes but they seemed sorta more green than red." He said smiling slightly whereas Max was frowning.
"What's the matter?" asked Alec.
"Well, you and Hazel have the same eyes." Said Max carefully.
"No we don't, my eyes are more green than red." And he suddenly stopped. "My eyes are more green." He whispered, "The baby.I never even.she would have told.but it must be.if he is.we had a child..together."
And that's how they sat together for the rest of the night. Chloe, who had been awake for the last part of the conversation, was making plans to make sure that she spoke to Hazel first.
Pairing: MA eventually, CA friendship
"I heard the heist team's back." Said Logan as Max walked into their apartment.
"Yeah." Said Max stoically.
"So what happened? Did it all go well? Its just you've been gone so long." Said Logan gesturing for her to sit down.
"Oh yeah I went to see you in the infirmary but you'd already gone. It was then they came in. We had a few casualties." Replied Max sitting down at the furthest point away from him on the couch.
"Oh did Alec screw up the mission again." Said Logan waiting for her reply.
"Yeah, probably." She replied absentmindedly but that was enough for Logan who suddenly broke into a big grin.
"Logan, I gotta go." She said standing up without looking at Logan and walking towards the door.
"But you just got back." Whined Logan.
She spun round quickly, "Logan, I am glad you're okay but I am the leader of this nation and I have a lot of work to do." And she walked off.
"Chloe, it's been five hours now. Get some rest or some food or something." Said Hazel to the anomaly.
"I'm fine." Replied Chloe as Hazel walked into the next room but quickly halted her, "I'd like some water though."
"Sure thing." Said Hazel from the other room and then brought her transhuman friend her drink, "I'm off now. Need a few zzzs before today's class. Send someone up if you need me."
"'k babes. Laterz."
Max walked into the courtyard and stood there for a couple of minutes looking around. The night was cool and crisp and the only light shed was from random fires lit. She had told Logan that she was going to her office a HQ but she was thinking about taking a detour to the infirmary when she heard someone coming.
"Oh, it's you." Said Max coldly.
"Lovely to see you as always 452." Replied Hazel.
"For the last time. It's Max." said the other transgenic through gritted teeth.
"Yeah, whatever." Replied Hazel changing the subject quickly, "So you heading to the infirmary?"
"No. Why would I?" said Max quickly.
"Oh. I don't know." Said Hazel sarcastically, "Maybe to see our friend Alec. To see whether the rest of the heist team are fairing well. To offer encouragement and praise for risking their lives to give this grand freak nation food, weapon and medical supplies. Isn't that what a good CO should do?"
Max looked a bit dumbstruck, "Err, well yes I might do that soon."
"Good. I'm sure they'll be pleased to see you." Hazel said slowly turning around to carry on walking but added, "Especially if you stay civil to all parties."
Max couldn't think of anything to do but stick her tongue out to the back of a walking Hazel.
Max walked into a quiet infirmary. Most of the transgenics were sleeping but a couple of transhumans were playing cards in the corner and she saw two X8s talking to each other animatedly but quietly. Looking at them so carefree, she had to smile.
"What's put you in such a good mood?" she heard a croaky, deep voice say. She turned in the direction of the voice and saw Alec sitting up slightly on his bed with Chloe asleep in the chair next to him.
"How are you?" Max asked quietly as not to wake Chloe up.
"I'm perfectly fine. Only a bit sore." Replied Alec looking at her strangely, "What are you doing here?"
"I just came to check up on everyone. See how everyone faired." She replied nonchalantly.
"Well, everyone's fine. Although I think Chloe and Gem need a good nights sleep." Said Alec nodding to the chair next to him and towards the office where a sleeping Gem could be seen still holding her baby.
Max sat herself down on a nearby chair and studied Alec. In the moonlight that strayed through the window, part of his face was hidden in darkness. But she could see how his face was held lower than usual with his ever present smirk erased from his chiselled face. His eyes looked tired and despondent but she knew that they still held strength.
"Are we gonna chat or are you just gonna stare at me all day?" said Alec quietly bringing her out of her reverie.
"Sorry." She said quietly, blushing slightly but soon looked at him again, "Alec, can I ask you something?"
"Go ahead." Was the reply she received.
"Well, it's just that earlier on Chloe said that you've been through enough of this to know the routine. What did she mean by that?"
Alec didn't reply but watched her through his peripheral vision. She looked bare as if she was trying to let go of what her brain constantly told what was right to do or wrong to do and she was just trying to listen to what her instincts told her. For once she looked vulnerable. Enraptured by this he said, "Back at manticore I used to get into a lot of trouble especially after the Berrisford mission. I was always kept on a tight leash and was regularly put into Psy-ops, solitary, and reindoctrination. After each one of these sessions, I would need to be taken care of and it was Chloe who was assigned to me. So she's seen me at my worst and weakest."
Max looked at him when he finished and for the first time really saw him. When she first met him back at manticore Alec was a true manticorian or so she thought. He was someone she despised because he was everything she hated. He never tried to be a normal guy but was proud of his abilities. He never needed the feeling of fitting in with the normal people and leading a normal life because he knew he never could and was comfortable with that. Ever since she had escaped she had always wanted to be accepted and forget her past. And it had taken her nearly ten years to settle down and make friends but Alec, after being out for only a year, has already settled down into life by finding a calling in life at TC and finding friends. He even wormed his way into her heart and now she could see why. He was a constant presence of strength, vitality, warmth, and annoyingness, that even though not always wanted, was needed to keep her life up straight.
"Your in an open mood today." She said.
That made him chuckle. His laugh was deep and sincere which put a smile on Max's face. He soon said, "Aren't you the lucky one then."
"You know, it seems everyone here knows you more than me." She replied.
"Your probably right. Not like you ever really wanted to know." He said with a dry laugh.
"You could tell me now." She replied carefully.
He turned to look at her to see if she was serious. To her credit she looked him straight in the eye.
"What do you want to know?" he asked turning to her.
"About the Berrisford mission, about you being a CO which I can't believe by the way, about your apparent brilliant fighting abilities which I won't believe." She replied shrugging her shoulders. His face was stone serious until the last bit when he chuckled slightly. She carried on, "Wherever you want to start."
"Well, I've been CO of my unit since I was five years old. Biggs and Hazel were both in my unit and I had four other people as well. We were all pretty close. I guess I ended up with the weirdest lot 'cos one us didn't like to kill, which was a bit of a problem, one of us was far too humanitarian for manticore's liking, one of us loved guns, one of us never stopped chattin', one of us fought like a mother bear protecting her brood, one of us was a rebel and their was only one sane one. You know, it was a group waitin' for trouble. But we were a team. Manticore told us to leave behind the weak, but that would never happen with us. I was not gonna let one of mine die. We helped each other, had each other's back. We even had ourselves a little underground business venture with the guards." At this Max smiled and rolled her eyes. Alec in turn smiled but soon turned serious, "We weren't a family though. There wasn't room in our routine to become a family." He got quieter, "They made us do things. Things that wouldn't happen in a family." He shook his head and coughed slightly, "Anywayz, after my first session of Psy-ops and reindoctrination in '09, I learned what manticore could and most probably would do too us if we stepped outta line so I made sure none of my unit felt that pain. I vowed from then on whenever it was in my power I would prevent that from happening." Max opened her mouth to say something but Alec carried on, "If they did anything wrong, outta line, I was the one who was asked to report it but I never gave them away."
"You can't do that though. What about the guards and stuff?" said Max quietly.
"I know I couldn't out right lie and say nothing happened so I told them that I did it, so that I would face their punishment. Max, you've felt the pain, you know that no one should ever be violated like that." He said suddenly turning to her and looked at her with desperate eyes. She felt an obligation to nod back and ease his pain.
"The Berrisford Assignment. I was prepped for a year before I went on that mission. They were all very pleased 'cos I learned pro level in just a day. I killed the real Simon Lehane, stole his identity. I went to their home as Robert Berrisford's daughter's piano teacher. She was so beautiful. I mean I know that's nothing really because we were all made pretty but she was so radiant with life and innocence something that was taken away from us at birth I suppose..She took me in straight away...She smiled and laughed and showed love to everyone. She was the first person to introduce me to love. I remember when she told me that she loved me. I didn't know what to do, I didn't know what to feel, I just knew that what I did feel was good, really good. When I had to kill her, I dunno what I felt. I just.I was going to go along with manticore and kill both of them but I couldn't do it. I couldn't let her die so I ran to stop her and told her everything. Do you know what the last thing she said to me was?" Max shook her head no. "She told me she hated me." He said this with silent tears running down his face. He wiped them quickly.
"I couldn't save the whole unit from the rape of Psy-ops though." Alec said changing the topic, "I was on one of my stays in solitary. Biggs was left in charge of the unit 'cos he was my SIC." Max nodded in understanding of the information whilst Alec swallowed, "For a six months or so, Hazel had been on a solo mission. I remember she had been really excited because it was her first one and she had heard about the outside from me, Biggs and others in the unit who had already been out. Anywayz, I was stuck staring at the ceiling in solitary with only the howls of the anomalies to keep me company when I heard a guard saying sorry to someone and then hearing sobs of pain and then Hazel was chucked into my cell. She was beaten really bad. One of her eyes was popping out and her lip swollen. She had been whipped until parts of her T shirt was ripped and the skin was punctured. Have you ever been down in solitary?" He asked so suddenly it took Max a while to answer. She shook her head no. "They drug you before taking you down so that when they beat you up you can't fight back. So I'm lying their on the stone floor 'cos I've been beaten so bad I can't even sit up and I see Hazel across the other side of the cell barely conscious. I crawled over to her and tried to move her so that she was lying not on the stone but on me, and that's how Renfro found us. It's usually a guard that takes us out but she decided to grace us with her presence and she found me with Hazel on my lap clutching my shirt and took it totally the wrong way. She said to me, 'if you like each other so much I can sort it out you know'." He said this in a mocking voice and then carried on with his story, "Two weeks later, I was ordered to go to Hazel's cell and copulate with her."
Max's eyes widened. "You were what?" she asked slowly.
"You had blown up the DNA labs so the breeding program started. I was assigned to Hazel." Said Alec casually.
"But I thought we were most compatible." Said Max indignantly.
Alec fought a smirk. "We are, Maxie. No need to worry about that." He said grinning and touching her face slightly but quickly brought it back. "But you had just had a heart transplant. And I guess they needed to do tests on you. While that was happening I was supposed to have sex with Hazel." Max was going to say something but Alec decided to carry on, "That first time we were supposed to do it, we didn't. Instead we talked about stuff and I finally found out about why she was thrown into solitary. Do you know the funny thing?" Max shook her head no. "It was because she had fallen in love with her job. She had fallen in love with the man she was supposed to kill and in the end she didn't. She gave him a tip off and he fled, whilst Hazel was banished to never leave the manticore site ever again. She saved him. More than what I did." They were both quiet. Now the only sound in the room was deep breathing when Alec started up again, "We talked about Rachel. And I suppose we sorta bonded. The next time I came was a bit different though." He suddenly stopped and didn't speak for a long time.
"You can't end the story there." Stated Max impatiently.
"You won't want to hear the next part, Max." He replied after a long time.
"Why not? What happened?" asked Max intrigued by his enigma.
He sighed, "At manticore, during certain parts of the year females would be kept in isolation away from males."
"Why?" asked Max stupidly.
"'Cos of heat. Male X5s will fight to the death to mate with a female in heat and X5 females will just let them. So to stop the bloodshed, females were put into lockdown." He carried on.
"Why is this important?" she asked.
"Because when I went to Hazel's cell, she was acting weird. All my senses went berserk. I mean I could smell her from outside her cell. She smelled so good. She moved as far away from me as possible. From across the room I could hear her breath quicken and her skin was glistening. Are you sure you want to hear this?" He stopped and looked at her. He was speaking so softly and with such a care she had to gulp and then nodded. "All I wanted to do was kiss her but I knew it was wrong, you know? She was part of my unit, we weren't supposed to be like that. But she backed up so far that she fell on to the bed and she gasped and I don't know, I just couldn't control myself and we....and then you came along."
"What?" she said quickly, "What have I got to do with it?"
"Well, after that day I didn't see Hazel again for a while 'cos I was assigned to you." Said Alec.
"What happened to Hazel?" said Max quietly.
"I guess she was assigned a breeding partner. I didn't see her again until she had the baby." Said Alec shrugging his shoulders.
They both stayed in silence for a while when Max said, "Who's the baby's father?"
"Dunno. Probably her other breeding partner. She never really wanted to talk about it." Said Alec.
"Did you ever see the child?" asked Max.
"Yeah, loads. I was the one who helped her sneak into the baby unit at night to see him. He was gorgeous. He had Hazel's dark hair and eyes but they seemed sorta more green than red." He said smiling slightly whereas Max was frowning.
"What's the matter?" asked Alec.
"Well, you and Hazel have the same eyes." Said Max carefully.
"No we don't, my eyes are more green than red." And he suddenly stopped. "My eyes are more green." He whispered, "The baby.I never even.she would have told.but it must be.if he is.we had a child..together."
And that's how they sat together for the rest of the night. Chloe, who had been awake for the last part of the conversation, was making plans to make sure that she spoke to Hazel first.